The Global Education & Skills Forum takes place under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and the Ruler of Dubai.

The 2018 GESF Live Blog is now closed. Thank you for following us, and safe travels home from Dubai.

That’s it for this year

Another hugely successful Global Education & Skills Forum is over. Whether it was Jennifer Hudson singing in the Coffee House, or Tony Blair and George Osborne talking the value of politics for education, there’s been an incredible range of discussions.

This is the end of the Live Blog, but we’ll leave you by asking: Do you feel better prepared for the world of 2030?

21:37, 18 March 2018

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GESF Live!

We have another star-studded cast for our first GESF Live! of Day 2. Rory Bremner is joined by Sir Mo Farah, Dr. Wladimir Klitschko, Ms Priyanka Chopra and Mr Vikas Pota.

11:30, 18 March 2018

Coffee House: Simon Schama

Simon Schama was in our Coffee House this morning, taking questions on history, the future and education.

11:50, 18 March 2018

Closing Plenary

The Closing Plenary is underway and gives an opportunity for delegates to look at how far we’ve come – and how much more is left to do once GESF 2018 is over.

First up: The final pitches and announcement of the winners of the Next Billion Prize.

The three winners are Chatterbox, dot Learn and Teach Me Now. And the overall winner of the trophy? Chatterbox, that employs refugees as foreign language teachers.

Iyad Rahwan joins us now at GESF to discuss the ethics of technology, drawing on his work on self-driving cars.

Ambarish Mitra is next on stage – an entrepreneur and innovator, he’s talking about how technology will shape our future.

His Excellency Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Cabinet member and the Minister of State for Tolerance in the UAE, gives a Ministerial statement to the closing plenary. He tells the audience that the technologies that impact teaching will come and go, but it is the values that educators instil in their students that will have a lasting impact.